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Patented June 19,- 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS KELLY, OF NEW YORK, 'N. Y.

BOOK-COVER.

sPEeIrIcA-rrorr forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,697, dated June 19, 1888.

Application filedDecember 15, 1886. Serial No. 221,615. (No modehl Covers, of which the following description, in.

connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a book-cover with a box or receptacle to contain souvenirs and the like, and with an opening at the end of the cover to gain access to the said box or receptacle, and a tongue to conceal the opening; also a lid at the outside of the cover to expose the box or receptacle; and the invention consists in various details of construction to be hereinafter pointed out in theclairns.

Figure 1 shows in perspective a book the cover of which is provided with a box and an outside lid to obtain access to the same; Fig. 2,2. front view of the cover, the outside lid being partially open and the box shown as partially withdrawn; Fig. 3, avertical section of the cover and its inclosed box; and Fig. 4, a cross-section of the cover taken on the dotted line 00 00, Fig. 2.

The cover a is of any usual shape, size, and material-that depending upon the book to which the same is to beapplied-it preferably being quite thick, as shown in sectional views, Figs. 3 and 4.

A sufficiep t space or aperture is formed 7 within the cover a to receive the box or reit. The opening at the lower end of the cover is closed by an overlapping tongue, 0, preferably made of the same material as the exterior covering of the cover a, such tongue 0 entering a slot or passage formed at the inner side of the cover, as best shown in Fig. 3.

The box or receptacle b is herein shown as divided into two compartments, b b, the por tion b being concealed by the material of the cover a, or the box or drawer is completely concealed within the cover, and the portion b fills the space shown at (1, which latter space is covered or concealed by a lid, (1, hinged or otherwise securtd to the outside of the cover a.

The portion b of the box or receptacle may contain any suitable book, pamphlet, memoranda, photographs, and the like, which may be accessible by simply raising the lid d, while the contents of the portion b of the box or receptacle b can only be exposed by withdrawing the box or receptacle at the lower end of the cover.

I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a bookcover having a box or receptacle within it, an

the box or receptacle, substantially as described.

In testimony whereotI havesigned my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS KELLY.

Witnesses:

J. HERMAN WAHLERS, EDW. W.'CURTIS. 

